because if obama and everybody, if 100%, which isn't 100%, it's 50% of the people, but many of obama's voters were actually forced to pay much higher taxes for three days, he would have come back and he would have given everything. you would have had the democrats exactly where you wanted them. it would have been retroactively brought back so nobody would have paid higher taxes, other than the rich, maybe, will have to pay a little bit of a penalty. and i think they're okay with that if they got the spending cuts. so, now what they did, they made a deal, they gave up on the tax increases. and now, i watched nancy pelosi the other day, who i respect, and she's been to my office, i respect her, but she's doing her thing from a different side and from a different belief. i watched nancy pelosi the other day saying, no, no, no, the taxes haven't stopped, they gave away something and now they're going to have to give it away again and i think it's amazing. and if the tax rates increase for everybody across the board, obama would have come in and he would have been virtually begging to make